Crippled Dick Hot Wax: S/D

Obviously search "Signor Rossi OST" by the Franco Godi Ensemble, which as stated earlier today is one of the greatest albums ever.

Also search: "Beat at Cinecitta", which as well as being a lovely whistlestop tour of Italian film music, contains the best album cover ever: http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000003SZN.02.MZZZZZZZ.gif

Is Beretta 70 any good?

hell yeah it is. shake sauvage remains my fave

southside callbox posse to thread probably

This label put me off a little when they released "Vampyros Lesbos". The music had been issued earlier on 2 non-commercial production-music LPs, and had been reissued on a CD called "3 Films of Jess Franco" (by Lucertola Media), still available at the time "Vampyros..." came out, but in a smaller pressing. The "3 Films.." CD is around 60 min. long, meaning it likely contains all the music from both LPs. The "Vampyros.." LP / CD is around 45, with some extra music available if you buy the limited picture-disc LP version. It looked like all they did was coast on some work that had already been done for a more complete edition (still available at the time), hype the presentation with a lot of Sexadelic / Fake-Lesbian / Vampire hip-kids' shit and make it so a person who wanted all the music had to buy more editions. The only positive thing I could say is that it was better distributed. It was a similar thing for the first "Beat at Cinecitta" compilation - almost half that CD had been released the same year on a compilation of Riz Ortolani film music on Beat Records. The liner notes for "Beat at Cinecitta" were full of errors (I can't remember offhand, but wrong composer-credits, etc.), and it seemed like they just assumed no-one would know or care. What bothers me most is that it's such a complete and lazy re-write of the purpose of the music. It's like the films were nothing but a trailer put together from party-scenes and the music reflects that like a pair of sunglasses that goes with whatever else you've got. I hate that. I know that there are many, many people who get much less in terms of recognition, but it seems insulting for these composers, many of that generation who have been involved in music for 40-odd years, to turn up as a collective one-liner on something like the "Beat at Cinecitta" series. Doubtless Maestros De Masi and Ortolani take it better than I do.

Tom, I just ordered two more of their CDs. Am I going to hell?

How about the Popshopping series? The pieces in question were basically one-liners, and the liner notes seem pretty reverent to the composers as far as I can tell.

ubaldo conntinello ~ shit sushi

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thats a GREAT record!

Tom is OTM. All this 70s Eurotrash soundtracks fetishism gets on my nerves.

I don't think you're going to hell at all! I do think there is a lot of really good music on the "Beat at Cinecitta" CDs; it's just that I don't like the way they've presented the music on some of their compilations (and I don't want to see someone like Piero Piccioni pigeonholed (sorry) as some kind of musical Bob Guccione-figure). I should say that I think it's great that the "Signore Rossi" music is available - if it was before the Crippled Dick edition, I didn't know. "Beretta '70" is pretty well-assembled, too, I think. I'd rather hear the small edit of Goblin's "La Via Della Droga" music there than on the Cinevox CD of the whole score because the Cinevox one doesn't sound very good and is clumsily edited. I feel bad complaining about Cinevox, though, because I'm so happy to see their scores issued with the extra music they are including (I usually just re-edit the CDs myself and burn a listening-copy after I buy them). I've never heard the "Popshopping" CDs - they're French, right? I should, probably. You have to take me with a lot of salt here, because most of the music I listen to is film music, and it's hard for me to look at, say, the "Beat at Cinecitta" series and not feel it's at least a bit of a rip-off, whereas it could easily be a starting point for someone else. I think that's a good thing. I don't think you're going to hell at all! I do think there is a lot of really good music on the "Beat at Cinecitta" CDs; it's just that I don't like the way they've presented the music on some of their compilations (and I don't want to see someone like Piero Piccioni pigeonholed (sorry) as some kind of musical Bob Guccione-figure). I should say that I think it's great that the "Signore Rossi" music is available - if it was before that Crippled Dick edition, I didn't know, so I should thank them for that. "Beretta '70" is pretty well-assembled, too, and the mastering is really nice. I've never heard the "Popshopping" CDs - they're French, right? I should, probably. You have to take me with a lot of salt here, because most of the music I listen to is film music, and it's hard for me to look at, say, the "Beat at Cinecitta" series and not feel it's at least a bit of a rip-off, whereas it could easily be a starting point for someone else. I think that's a good thing, and it's probably also a good thing if people aren't all as freakish about film music as I am. It bothers me personally that some of the selling-points are cheap, though, and I also wonder if people won't be put off by the vacuousness of some of the packaging and dismiss some people's life's work when the retro-camp thing wears off.

wow - what a mess! sorry about that! I wish I could remove everything before the part where I start over again!

Tom, to clarify, I didn't mean that the sdtrks themselves stink, just that the nature of the way they're being marketed sucks.

The new GRLZ: Women Ahead of Their Time comp of female-fronted postpunk bands is pretty good, though I wish they'd skipped a few of the more obvious tracks- "Stretch" is on their own Maximum Joy comp, released the same month, and I seriously doubt the target audience doesn't already have the Slits' version of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine." Even so, I'm glad they dug up the Dorothy tune, and "Nowhere Bei Mir" by Nicolle Meyer is beautiful.